Ant-Man: Net of Xerox!

A Story by Abishai100

Narrated vigilante-account of an Earth-grid 'defender' who claims he's engaged with a Martian adversary-woman over electric-power distribution(s).

An homage to 'grid-vigilantism' referencing some 'cool' storyboards from Ant-Man media/comics. Enjoy,

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I'm Ant-Man, a micro-globe grid-net defender/vigilante using cyber-blogs for ideations on capitalism defense(s) in the post-9/11 era, but I've been contacted by a female Martian named Medusa who'd been spying on us from Earth's moon and claimed her 'beau' wanted to challenge me on Facebook-chess for a stalemate-condition for non-invasion diplomacy agreement. Who'd think I'd become a 'secret' diplomat for Earth-species securities now?

Now, as the human-angel Ant-Man, I work as a 'student' of the electro-grid matrix facilitating the capitalism-globe grid, which comes as no surprise then why I'd be a huge fan of modernism-symbolic Facebook-chess apps and games, which is how Medusa the female Martian found/contacted me, as an 'agent' of the civilization monitor.

Now, I'd been somewhat familiar with SETI-work(s) and the ideations behind alien-IQ and nonhuman intelligence contact(s) IQ and cinema regarding strange reports of outer-space and dark-sky sightings/observations filtering down of course into various/numerous smalltown abduction tales of metaphysical lore. Why did Medusa find our species 'curious' for invasion?

MEDUSA: I noted your comment on Facebook-chess regarding your 'admiration' of solar-communities and solar-calculators.

ME (Ant-Man): Well, the solar-calculator(s) can light the 'interface' of shared/human energy for conservation-IQ/imagination.

MEDUSA: True...that's why my 'beau' wants you to be the Earthling-diplomat of a Facebook-chess contest between us, 'Antie.'

"Antie" she called me, which is a signpost for her determined humanoid sensibilities, and judging from her invisible/anonymous alias-net/cyber interface with me, I regard this exchange rather 'diplomatic' regarding species-control(s) for energy-conservation as reflective of Earth imagination. Graph-paper, I remember well, and I used to use it at Dartmouth and Seton Hall for probability charting(s), and now it reminds me why wood/trees are no longer vanishing for paper, since it's a grid for cyber-linguistics and communications now (email!).

MEDUSA: Are you an avid-fan of eco-friendly/wise rechargeable batteries, Antie?
ME (Ant-Man): Surely, I am; of course, such market-trends signal macro-capitalism 'waves/stats' for energy-consumption IQ.

MEDUSA: Sure; you're really a man of 'macro-grid' geometry debate or defense of ergonomics-IQ (e.g., goods-furnishings).

ME (Ant-Man): Earthlings like electric parts and strings, and we care about consumer-trends in energy-consumption/wisdom!
MEDUSA: Alright.

My girlfriend thinks I'm insane, but she's a linguistics professor and full-time exercise junkie who works-out after work on weekdays and reminds me that the 'modern electro-grid' simply requires a human-face for everyday lifestyle wisdom and magazine/journal-reads and not necessarily electronica-vigilantism, and she honestly grounds me back to the real life of the real world.

MEDUSA: Your Facebook-chess profile reminds me of a Thomas Nast or Bill Gates of the cyber-punk chat-club trend, Antie.

ME (Ant-Man): No one knows I'm Ant-Man; simply an avid-fan of chess-play/stalemate, Medusa; I dunno what you look like.

When her 'beau' challenged me to Facebook-chess, I drew a stalemate against him using a shifty rook-bishop double-line flexibility-maneuver which frustrated his queen and horse/knights. I assured him it wasn't a pawn-sacrifice stalemate, but he was furious and conceded a diplomacy-compact for non-invasion of Earth. I kissed my laptop screen after this event online.

MEDUSA: Congrats, Antie; this will surely afford a species-coexistence planarity unthreatening to your Earthling solar-homes.

ME (Ant-Man): How'd you know I'd been an avid-investor in solar-community advertising on Facebook?
MEDUSA: It's so easy to spy on your electric-humans!

ME (Ant-Man): Hey...we've managed a minor miracle here, Medusa, no?

MEDUSA: Alright.

I emailed Medusa a jpg of a classic robot-set fantasy-heroics toy from consumer market and reminded her why it should suggest to her species on Mars that Earthlings are 'lovers' of the electric-physics of mechanical energy and fitness. She recognized this species-solicitation and simply told me, "You've achieved the stalemate for your species-defense and non-invasion, Ant-Man; don't push your luck with this 'cheap' hype now."

I dunno what Medusa the Martian looks like or even if her 'beau' was really her Martian husband or simply her using a Facebook-chess cyber-grid identity-masking alias/avatar. However, the stalemate-condition(s) chess-match proved to be absolutely legitimate and verifiable, so perhaps I'll just think of Medusa-the-Martian as what she'll simply seem to me --- a Bond-villain (ha).